Subjects vs Citizen - What's the difference?
subjects | citizen |
(subject)
A person who is legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Steven Sloman
, title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation
, volume=100, issue=1, page=74
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(dated) A member of a state that is not a monarchy; used in contrast with subject .
A person who is a legally recognized resident of a city or town.
* George Eliot
A resident of any particular place to which the subject feels he/she belongs.
* 2007', John English, '''''Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
A civilian, as opposed to a soldier, police officer etc.
As nouns the difference between subjects and citizen
is that subjects is plural of subject while citizen is a person who is legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations.As a verb subjects
is third-person singular of subject.subjects
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Etymology 1
See (subject) (noun)Noun
(head)Etymology 2
See (subject) (verb)Verb
(head)citizen
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(wikipedia citizen)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
- When the rebellion broke out, the United States promptly evacuated its citizens from the area.
- That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs.